Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God." — 2 Corinthians 9:11 (ASV)
Being enriched in every thing.—The context points primarily to temporal abundance, but we can hardly think that the other thought of the spiritual riches that are found in Christ (2 Corinthians 8:9) was absent from the Apostle’s mind. On the word for “bountifulness” see Note on 2 Corinthians 8:2. The participles are not grammatically connected with the preceding sentence, but the meaning is sufficiently obvious.
Which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.—His thoughts are obviously travelling on to the time of his arrival at Jerusalem, to the announcement of the collected gifts of the Gentile churches at a solemn gathering of the Church there, to the thanksgiving which would then be offered.